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Used to work with a guy who was a Port Adelaide supporter (or claimed to be)

He used to get into me about 'Port his, Port that' etc etc..  I didn't mind that as supporter banter but this guy had absolutely NFI about 1) Port Adelaide FC and 2) AFL football in general.

What made me realise that he knew absolutely nothing about football was in 2016 when he was telling me all the things Port did in their first couple of years that Adelaide supposedly didn't do (he had just joined the company I worked for)  

Such as 'Port were the first interstate team to beat the West Coast Eagles'.  By 'interstate' he meant Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney.

I questioned him and said that did he realise that the WCE came into the comp in 1987?   Are you sure that Port were the first interstate team to beat WCE?  Are you telling me that none of Brisbane, Sydney nor Adelaide beat them in that 10 years prior to Port coming into the comp in 1997?

I knew he was wrong but he wouldn't accept anything else. I bought up the fact that Adelaide beat WCE in round 2 of 1993 and had it on my computer screen (AFL tables).   Again - no dice.  Would not look at my computer and would not resile from saying that Port were still the first interstate side to beat WCE.

As an aside, to get what a knob this guy was, at the time we used to fly interstate every month as part of our roles - a lot of these times we were on the same flight. I was a Gold QFF back then and used to go into the Qantas club before the flights.  He got wind of this and new that I could take in a guest.  From then on, when we had a flight coming up, he would come up to me and say 'get me into the Qantas club will you'.  Didn't ask nicely, just 'get me into the Qantas club'

I never did.....and he never asked why I wouldn't.   Guess he may have got the message by then....

I left the company in 2018 and I've never wanted to punch a work colleague in the head as much as that guy.